William Kamkwamba Quotes

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

People must have water, affordable, necessary water.

Access to water is an animal welfare issue, yet, unfortunately, governments still make it difficult and costly to obtain water licences and approvals to build and develop new water points.

We have a big heart for Africa and also for just raising awareness about the water crisis.

Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.

In my village where I'm from, there's still not running water everywhere. People are still struggling to get clean water.

So many diseases and illnesses have fundamental roots in the lack of clean water. Resolving the clean water crisis would mitigate a lot of problems.

I saw from a very young age the value of clean water in communities in Africa. I made a promise to myself that once I reached a time and place in my career where I could do more, I would.

Availability of water is critical for sanitation projects. Without water, toilets can't be kept clean. Places where there is no drinking water, water for toilets becomes complicated.

High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right quantity at the right place at the right time, is essential to health, recreation, and economic growth.

Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would give our planet a special character.

Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.

Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.

In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

Water is one of the world’s great business opportunities. It promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th.

Half the world’s people fail to receive the level of water services available in many of the cities of ancient Greece and Rome

No water—no jobs.

Conservation programs are great but when you’ve already done all the conservation and you got no water, how does that help you? It doesn’t. The only thing that could help us now, is water.

There is enough water ... but the systems we have in place do not have enough flexibility to move water to the places where it is most needed.

How can Africa, the home to some of the largest bodies of water in the world, be said to have a water crisis? It doesn't. It has a knowledge crisis. The lack of knowledge on vital topics, like water and food, is what stands between Africa's current state and a future of prosperity.

You know what they want in the Central Valley? They want water.

Pricing water delivery closer to its real costs is a necessary step to improving use efficiency.